ORH_wxman

Reading the obs thread was funny, you kept reporting huge golfball sized slush bombs mixed in but you couldn't get it to flip to all snow despite those huge echoes over you. You went up to that hill and saw huge parachutes falling with accumulation. That was the most classic elevation event we've seen I think in the past 4 or 5 years here. 900mb temps of like -2C, 950mb temps of near 0C, and 1000mb temps of like +2C. We were the only two people that forecasted that event well. I remember you were on the desk for that the day before. BOX had like 7-12" for that in the hills here and I had 8-13"...while the TV outlets all had like 2-4 or 3-5" lol.

I'm reading the old Jan 10-11, 2009 thread now. Pretty funny stuff.

Lol, I said this in that thread leading up to the event: "Almost everyone here is expecting a 3-5" event...and I don't think anyone has one iota of a sense that this could be a 10"+ event. "

MEkster was a huge weenie during that 2/23-24/10 storm, he drove up to Diamond Hill in the obs thread to see parachutes falling.

Yeah and some of knew it was going to do that, but yet we still had all these people freaking out. I think CT_blizz asked about 12 different times in the span of one hour if he was going to dry slot, lol.

The 1/12 radar is definitely the best looking radar we've had in a long time...at the very least, since 12/9/05.

See post above:

I had 11.5" I think in the first storm. It could have been a hell of a lot more too. It really wasn't supposed to change to rain until after noon, but it changed over in mid-morning.

The TV forecasts were awful http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?/topic/225781-sne-22210-waiting-for-the-wheels-to-turn/page__view__findpost__p__4691496

fun reading the discussion before the storm http://www.easternuswx.com/bb/index.php?/topic/225781-sne-22210-waiting-for-the-wheels-to-turn/page__st__180

I was just going through the old Feb 23-24, 2010 thread on eastern...what a cool event that was for here. The storm after it kind of ruined the fun, but for one night, that was a great storm to follow:

Thats a stretch as they had upwards of 3-4 times as much ice as we did in Dec 2008. But on the whole you are correct, it was an absolutely devastating ice storm. Inside the city limits here we had no power for 3 days and outside the city limits there were people who were without power for 2 weeks. Just a disaster. Going back and reading the threads on eastern is hilarious. Many people were canceling the event as bad because we hadn't cooled to below 30F by midday on the 11th. Even I didn't think it would be that terrible by late the 11th. But we got completely smoked with temps around 30-31F because we had exceptional cold air drain with marginal temps. The lower dewpoints offset the latent heat release. Very rare to see those types of winds in an ice storm. That's why that one pic I showed has the icicles at like a 30 degree angle on the tree. You hardly ever see that in an ice storm. It was a perfect storm of events to get big ice with that setup. The low tracked nearly over BOS. The obs thread had people in CT/RI/SE MA with temps in the mid to upper 60s at 8am on the 12th while we were 30F and icing with no power.

This is technically not a snowstorm memory....but its the most devastating and large impact winter storm I've been a part of on the boards going back 8 years.

Oh yeah, there were a ton of thunder snow obs in the 1/12 storm. That was crazy. 12/9/05 was amazing for its time though because there were far fewer posters back then. That storm still had the most impressive CCB intensification I've seen...but 1/12 came close. I remember commenting how that 1/12 inflow was the best since 12/9/05.

Back on eastern, my favorite part of that storm was everyone reporting thundersnow at the same time in the obs thread. The way that CCB intensified was something I haven't seen before or since. The funny part was that the obs thread for that storm was like 23 pages long. I think that would only get us through about 1-2 hours of another storm like that nowadays....how times have changed.

Lol, here's a pic I took on Feb 16th...before that big 2-3 day torch we had....the one where Kevin was saying he'd have less than 6" left and we called him a complete nut job, lol.

Yeah we still had like 22" on March 1st or something. But that torching rainstorm put a huge dent in it over that following week as seen in the pics. The snow did take forever to melt in the woods though. I remember posting the last patches of weenie snow pack in mid April.

Those marginal icing events helped preserve the snow pack longer in the higher hills...that and later in the season in general you have more melt days and 33F vs 37F can become a noticeable difference over the course of several days or more.

March 1, 2011: March 7, 2011......disaster in 6 days:

November 8th actually. I was kind of bummed because I just missed getting a couple inches. The best was in CT.

I found pics of the Oct 18, 2009 storm...while I was driving around early in the storm

We are potentially only 3 months away from our first flakes. We saw that T-2" snowfall on October 16, 2009...then another on October 18, 2009. This thread gets me pumped up for tracking winter events again.

That was a very nice little clipper/redeveloper. That gave a pretty nice area of 6-8" of snow, even some 9" lollis. I love those types of systems...you can sort of see them coming a couple days out and as it gets closer, the models keep increasing qpf as they try and blow it up as it exits stage right.

That was a cold and solid winter for here. December 1983 had a couple good SW flow events that gave some good snow followed by those brutal arctic outbreaks. February 1984 was a dud though...it was an absolute torch with little snow. December, January, and March were very wintry months that season though. The storm you are thinking of is the March 28-29, 1984 storm. It gave 17.6" of snow here. Extremely dynamic storm with a lot of thundersnow in the Boston suburbs and wind gusts over hurricane force. (Blue Hill had a gust over 100mph) Perfect way to end a winter.